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The US-Saudi aggression against Yemen in its fifth year, and has exhausted most of its options, if not all. Since the first moments of the aggression, the aggression adopted covering its cruelty with deceiving titles, the world is blinded by its fake humanity. To the US-Saudi aggression's surprise, the unexpected steadfastness of Yemeni People continues to be the most important factor in the aggression's defeat. The Economic War and the starvation of the Yemeni People is one of the dirty weapons used by the aggression since the first moments of aggression on March 26th 2015.

The aggression forced foreign Oil and gas companies, which represents 70% of the state resources, to leave Yemen. The Oil sectors in Hadhramout, Shabwa and Mareb were ceased despite that Mareb was under the control of mercenaries at the beginning of the war. 2015 and 2016 recorded intensive airstrikes targeting economic facilities, bridges, factories and farms. The aggression has targeted everything related to the the public and private Yemeni economy. It continues to disrupt the business market and force tens of thousands of workers in industrial and agricultural sectors towards unemployment.

The Economic War revealed who is truly running the aggression against Yemen. When the U.S. threatened to transfer the Central Bank and destroy the Yemeni currency, during the negotiations in Kuwait 2016, which was what happened later, the Yemeni People became very sure of the U.S. major role in orchestrating the aggression against them.

In the third year, despite the agreements signed with the United Nations to neutralize the economy, the aggression transferred the Central Bank to Aden cutting the payment of the public sector salaries and motivated a large segment of the families towards destitution completely in the unoccupied areas, and aimed to create chaos among the people. The security apparatuses have controlled a number of organized cells in that time, except that the transfer of the central bank transferred the control center of the economy management and the currency altogether, which caused more damage to the national economy as the recession rates doubled in an unprecedented manner.

The Economic War waged against the government in Sana'a has been characterized by the overdraw of the Yemeni currency, printing of huge and surplus amounts of currency, manipulation of the exchange rate of the Riyal against the dollar and the continuation of the policy of draining the resources of the Salvation Government in the same way as illegal entities in the telecommunications and Internet sectors. They forced the companies to open documentary credit through the Bank of Aden, which is completely controlled by the aggression.

The military aggression and the siege imposed on a failed state such as Yemen, according to its situation and international reports, was supposed to cause a collapse of the government in the first few weeks. Many things has been blocked from entering the country including food, drugs and Oil derivatives.

According to the spokesman of the Health Ministry, Dr. Youssef Al-Hadheri, the stores of the Ministry of Health were devoid of life-saving medicines and many varieties just weeks after the start of the sudden attack, praising the courage of those who took control of the health sector at the time. The mechanism of international assistance was not yet formed. The international community was not prepared to put an emergency plan to deal with a disaster of this scale.

According to data and statistics on the humanitarian side of the health crisis, the Economic War has made thousands of Yemeni families unable to buy medicine, and the Yemeni market now lacks nearly 400 life-saving medicinal products. On the food side, according to UN statistics, millions of Yemenis now live extreme poverty and about 100,000 Yemeni children die every year by hunger.

It can be said that Yemen's customs and traditions, which are characterized by solidarity and compassion, especially in the countryside, which contain 70% of the Yemeni People, have contributed to alleviate the starvation weapon and the economic war paper as we have witnessed over the past four years.

In the cities, charitable initiatives such as bakeries affected on the starvation weapon and spread compassion in the community. Mohammed Al-Wajeeh, a member of the Association of Yemeni Scholars, said that the leadership going to the self-sufficiency factors and the development of its military capabilities to defeat the aggression increased the confidence among Yemeni People.

In the same context, the member of the Shura Council, Khalid Al-Madani, said that the consciousness weapon represent the cornerstone of the steadfastness of the Yemeni in front of the weapon of starvation. In steadfastness squares, the religious element inaugurating the fifth year of confronting the aggression, facing Economic War and the starvation.

In General, we can understand how could a besieged State whose resources have been cut off to withstand and mobilize its people. How is it possible for the people to resist the starvation weapon that reached the corners of every home and the cavity of every child, man and woman in the most despicable aggression against humanity.

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